New Music Of The Day: Fews – ‘The Queen’

Along with the seasonal prophecies of “The end of guitar bands forever. Amen.” comes a team of artists that show every LogicPro-wielding producer what it means to enjoy warm lager, strap on a guitar and sweat your ass off, in the name of expression.

Pixies. There’s a great guitar band we all know. We’ll come back to them.

Fews. You haven’t heard of them, have you? Well, that’s about to change.

Since appearing on the scene with Dan Carey (Bloc Party, TOY, Django Django, Bat For Lashes) produced debut single – ‘lll’ – back in 2015, we’ve been keeping a keen ear on these boys as they drip feed us songs that feel like four buzzed-out dudes getting messy in a room.

Debut album, ‘Means’, sees the band and Carey working together again to create an album that is as bold and defiant as it is listenable. Sure, it nods to the hallmarks of fingerline indie, but they’re largely buried under a dirty coat, and this rusty ballet of melodies and atmospherics is regularly intercepted by almost prog-like sprawling passages which let you know that, while it’s likely to be ‘in them’, they have little interest in making a mass market record, and isn’t that just kinda better?

Oh, the guys are supporting Pixies and are playing a load of other shows. Check it below. In the meantime, get an early glimpse of the band performing their track ‘The Queen’ courtesy of our friends at DistillerTV: